Zoja

given name · Polish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Zoja is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 84th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 208◐
  • UAUkraine1 in 505
  • RURussia1 in 592

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈545K ●

across 14 countries

#720 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
241 ●

1.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 208 ◐

Poland

Spellings & scripts●

ЗояCyrillic · Russian●1.9M records
AgataLatin · Polish●963K records
זויהHebrew · Hebrew●23K records
ᲖოიაGeorgian · Georgian●10K records
소야Hangul · Korean●71 records
โซย่าThai · Thai●5 records
ΖογιαGreek · Greek●0 records

4 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Зоя in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 5 more, Agata in PL Poland, US United States, CZ Czechia and 4 more, Zoya in BR Brazil, ES Spain, PE Peru and 4 more and זויה in IL Israel, LV Latvia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Latvian

Sievietes vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Zoja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#841,749,451338K rec.—#30Зоя159
UA Ukraine#79626,039623K rec.——Зоя46
PL Poland#77184,481△30K rec.1 in 208184KAgata200
US United States—125,281△26K rec.1 in 2.7K125KAgata241
BR Brazil—99,759△91 rec.1 in 2.1K100KZoya16
FR France—67,570△28 rec.1 in 1K68K—4
IL Israel#54718,19918K rec.—24זויה20
HU Hungary—14,097—1 in 69314K——
ES Spain—12,238△1.6K rec.1 in 4.1K12KZoya60
TR Türkiye—12,1441.1K rec.——Зоя11
NL Netherlands—11,551△633 rec.1 in 1.5K12KAgata46
KG Kyrgyzstan#31711,1423.1K rec.——Зоя15

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Polish23K50%
  • Hungarian6.4K14%
  • Russian6.3K13%
  • Latvian2.5K5%
  • Czech2.4K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish23,34850%
Hungarian6,36814%
Russian6,28213%
Latvian2,5445%
Czech2,3895%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Zoja is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name6.4K records spelled Zoja2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Hungary

    Also written Zója

  • English given name1.3K records spelled Zoja6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, Netherlands

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Zója

  • Estonian given name1.2K records spelled Zoja4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, Latvia, United States

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Žoja, Zõja

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Zoja is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Italian, variante gráfica arcaica de Zoia

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • In Italian, Variante di Zoia

    as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

02040608019001950200061 · 1958

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Zoja in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1895–2025
Yearrecords
18951
18971
18982
19002
19012
19025
19032
19041
19052
19062
19081
19092
19104
19112
19127
19135
19144
19152
19166
19174
19185
19193
192014
19217
19225
19233
19248
19253
192610
192714
19286
192915
193011
193110
193214
193317
193416
193519
193626
193727
193824
193921
194027
194131
194239
194340
194440
194541
194623
194731
194830
194943
195043
195134
195251
195330
195442
195542
195660
195754
195861
195953
196057
196148
196241
196346
196443
196542
196641
196734
196833
196927
197027
197139
197219
197322
197426
197531
197619
197722
197826
197926
198013
198118
198219
198322
198410
198510
19865
198710
19885
19897
19907
19917
199212
199313
19948
199510
19967
19972
199811
19996
20008
20012
20026
20033
20044
20056
20064
20071
20083
20091
20105
20114
20121
20131
20143
20152
20166
20171
20182
20193
20205
20212
20226
20232
20241
20252

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 128 years between 1895–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

100012001400160018002000Eupraxia Mstislavna, b. 1101Zoya Voskresenskaya, b. 1907Zoya Fyodorova, b. 1909Zoya Bulgakova, b. 1914Zoé Oldenbourg, b. 1916Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, b. 1923Zoja Rudnova, b. 1946Zoja Mikotová, b. 1951Zoya Buryak, b. 1966Zoya Kaydanovskaya, b. 1976
  • Eupraxia Mstislavnab. 1101UAnot in their usual namea Rus' princess
  • Zoya Voskresenskayab. 1907RUnot in their usual nameRussian / Soviet author and diplomat (1907-1992)
  • Zoya Fyodorovab. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet-Russian actress (1909-1981)
  • Zoya Bulgakovab. 1914RUnot in their usual nameRussian Soviet stage actress (1914-2017)
  • Zoé Oldenbourgb. 1916FRnot in their usual nameRussian-born French historian and novelist (1916-2002)
  • Zoya Kosmodemyanskayab. 1923RUnot in their usual nameSoviet resistance member of World War II and Heroine of the Soviet Union (1923–1941)
  • Zoja Rudnovab. 1946RUSoviet table tennis player
  • Zoja Mikotováb. 1951CZCzech theatre director
  • Zoya Buryakb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress
  • Zoya Kaydanovskayab. 1976RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Zoja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5.3K#253
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20265.3K#253
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.1K#174
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253K#92
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20242.9K#95
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20232.8K#99
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20222.7K#105
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20212.6K#108
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20202.4K#115
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20192.3K#119
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—2.2K—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—2.2K#248

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 253 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Zoja?
We estimate roughly 545 thousand people bear Zoja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 14 countries in our records.
In which country does Zoja have the most bearers?
Zoja is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled зоя.
Where is Zoja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zoja is densest in Poland — about 1 in 208 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is Zoja compared with other names?
In Russia, Zoja is the 84th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Zoja a male or female name?
Zoja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Zoja mean?
Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Zoja” — the 84th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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